McKinney

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • As a Scottish and Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac Cionaodha, Mac Cionaoith.
  • Also as an Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac Coinnigh (“son of Coinneach”), also treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth.

Both senses above are derived from Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ. Sometimes Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie.

Proper noun

McKinney

  1. A surname.
  2. A city, the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States.
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